Zombie Parasites | Nat Geo Live

What if, unbeknownst to you, someone—or something—was controlling your behavior for its own nefarious ends? Join photographer Anand Varma as he reveals this nightmare scenario being acted out over and over across the natural world, as unsuspecting hosts are compelled to nurture and protect mind-sucking parasites.

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Zombie Parasites | Nat Geo Live

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[Gamzalive]

in about 3 more years this man is going to climb a giant building and release spores.

[EloiseRaeCullen]

"Parasites are so cool!!"
Uh-huh... sounds like something a parasite would say

[ferretyluv]

I miss when Animal Planet did stuff like this instead of reality shows.

[dbarshlomo]

Although my skin literally felt itchy for the entire 23 minutes of this vid - it's an amazing presentation and Anand Varma is a true professional!

[erobuns]

*sees a poor lowly ground creature creeping *
Wasps: *its free real estate*

[jerzysielicki-baryka]

this guy sounds like he's really stressed out about having to say all of that in front of a live audience but at the same time he has a weird niche interest that he's SUPER passionate about and I relate to that on some spiritual level

[vupham]

appreciate this guy's work, mad professial

[jeffhughes]

"The trade off is that these lady bugs can heal. They can regrow their internal organs and go on with their not a trade off at all. A trade off would be "Oh hey I have super powers now that the parasite is gone."

[Skag_Sisyphus]

"Sometimes I still miss her" is a great song to choose for a video about parasites. I don't know why, I just- YES.

[namelessjuan]

A parasite has been injected a parasite....How ironic

[TheFelish]

Guy at 15:00 *_"How do I find a more interesting way to light these creatures"_*

Me: *_"Try using a flamethrower to light these creatures next time"_*

[Phane]

To the people who wants you to eat crickets as a protein, show them the horsehair worm!

[tygrallure]

Parasites still make my skin crawl, but he did an excellent job on this.

[karinaardelia]

This person makes me sit and he makes me want to hear his speech for 23 minutes and 27 seconds in excitements

[KrotosVeikar]

It's official; I'm never going outside again. Damn nature, you scary!

[evo]

This has to be one of the best docus produced in a long time, im sick of watching the mesmerize docus that only show great photography and play some awe inspiring music to dazzle there audience, yet learn almost nothing.

What ever happened to great documentary's.

Edit: ill pretend I didnt see the dubstep part =p

[anemoneyas]

Cool talk but he definitely failed in his goal of making me like parasites more. Now I think they're even more horrible.

[ScOULaris]

This is legitimately one of the coolest videos I've ever come across on YouTube. Absolutely fascinating.

[styrogenic]

Really well done. You're the kind of researcher that doesn't stop until you've figured everything out, assuming you ever stop.

[thecheeze]

Since I hate cockroaches, spiders & ants, this video is like therapy for me. Now I know my nightmares have nightmares of their own, and that makes me happy inside 😄